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Private networks are defined as a network that is not connected to another service provider’s infrastructure. The enterprise owns the radio access network, small cells delivering connectivity, the on-prem packet core and cloud compute platform.  All can be owned operated and configured by the enterprise.

Kurt Schaubach, CTO, Federated Wireless goes into more detail with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication. about the differences with existing private networks.

Kurt Schaubach

An enterprise-owned private network allows for a hardening of the network to make it more secure. The data is more secure on the private network since it is not exposed to the MVNO/provider’s infrastructure.

Find out why CBRS is a key component of the private 5G opportunity and, while 5G will not replace wireless, 5G has many features that provide significant advantages over wireless technology.

5G provides great connectivity allowing enterprises to exploit the advantages when integrating their solutions with IoT, Cloud Compute and Edge Compute.

Federated Wireless is about providing innovation and services that connect people, businesses, and industries to the future. They are the market leaders in shared spectrum, making deploying and managing new 5G private wireless networks simple, affordable, and accessible.

They envision a massive opportunity with this new technology. From private networks like stadiums or casinos to large mobile and cable networks, shared spectrum is forecast to be a billion-dollar market in five years, and they are one of only a handful of companies with a solution for managing access to the spectrum.

For more information, go to: https://www.federatedwireless.com/

How to get return on carrier investment in network

Alan Evans, Principle Technologist at Macrometa, tells us that as we pass through an era of network transformation, carriers must still see return on investment. Telcos represent the last mile for mobile applications, but across the board they have similar problems: How can they monetize 5G, get new revenue streams to offset declining ARPU, and detect and prevent fraud? For telcos, the use of edge computing is an opportunity to address these problems and compete in highly competitive markets. In this podcast, Alan discusses the cost efficiency and real-time capabilities of the edge, and how it can amplify telcos in a competitive market. Alan takes us through how carriers can see savings at the edge, and how they can better guard against edge vulnerabilities such as fraud and abuse. We gain a picture of how the use of edge computing can help telcos thrive in a competitive market.

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“Historically, there was a very sledgehammer approach to solving things,” says Amit Modi, the CTO and CISO at Movius. “Some firms would say, hey, let’s shut one channel off because I really don’t have control over it, and I really don’t know what’s being discussed. A case in point: messaging.” Phone calls to clients, calls to partners, calls between employees, once was the one size fits all real time communication that everyone could agree on. Today, a three or four generation household, not uncommon, might present a company a baker’s dozen of preferred platforms to communicate as clients, and perhaps a half a dozen of preferred platforms that the two-working people in that same household might want to use for work. Even the notion that you might be able to at least hub everything through the family’s smartphones, might be challenged by one family member who still prefers a landline. A bank might serve all four as customers and might have one or two people in that household as employees.

How can a business find a platform that that will deliver employee productivity, client engagement and security?

In this podcast Modi outlines the challenge and then discusses the Movius MultiLine which works across on any phone, is all software, is an app that is carrier neutral, lives well with other platforms such as Teams, and above all delivers all three needs, concurrently. The app enables employees to use their own devices but provide a formal corporate identity, which is separate, secure and offer privacy for the employee who is working from home or working from anywhere but wants a professional identity and contact coordinate. Meanwhile the app enables the company and its team to engage clients their way, with secure and recorded. MultiLine operates within all the regulations facing financial firms and offers the same level of compliance in several other highly regulated verticals.

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Julian Zottl, Chief Technology Officer - Cyber Protection Solutions at Raytheon Intelligence and Space discusses biggest security threats including the “Great Resignation” with Don Witt of the Channel Daily News, a TR publication. During the pandemic,  security professionals started living new lifestyles creating remote access security issues. After the Pandemic, security professionals did not want to change their new remote access lifestyle and wanted more money, so many quit. The security technology source pool had to be expanded to address the security staffing shortage still in existence.

Julian Zottl

Current Cyber security threats tend to come from nation states, hackers for hire, and for-profit organizations. People can make huge amounts of money based on hacking and ransomware. Listen in to find out how to mitigate the threats and meet the security  personnel shortage challenges.

Raytheon Intelligence & Space delivers the disruptive technologies and proven solutions their customers need to succeed in any domain, against any challenge. They develop advanced sensors, training, and cyber and software solutions that provide a decisive advantage to civil, military, and commercial customers in more than 46 countries around the world.

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According to Alan Percy of TelcoBridges, we now live in a STIR/SHAKEN world. As with the devolving nature of the pandemic, we are moving from an intense and uncomfortable (and unsustainable) situation of mass illegal robocalling, to a new era where we live with a world where illegal robocalling is mitigated, limited, tamped down, but not altogether vanished. The rise of VoIP lowered the cost for overseas calls to almost zero. That in turn inspired bad actors to flood the system with calls. Percy reports that the number of blocked calls might be on the order of ten to every one call that makes it through. Hence the new normal, where robocalling is greatly reduced, but not eliminated. Percy explains the working of STIR/SHAKEN, where STIR/SHAKEN has been fully adopted, but also where, with smaller providers with older gear, STIR/SHAKEN remains not fully implemented. Percy also tells us about bad actors who try to get around STIR/SHAKEN by posing a legitimate organization and other measures to walk into any gate open, even a jar. In this podcast, we learn what we need to know now to understand what’s happening, what to expect and ideas on what to do now. Percy also places the issue in the larger context of community investment by telcos.

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This technology could not have come at a better time. With the shortage of qualified developers, security experts and operations personnel, DuoploCloud automates the infrastructure implementation process. Venkat Thiruvengadam, Founder & CEO of DuploCloud, speaks with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication about their technology and how easy it is to implement compliance ready technology quickly with reduced staff.

Venkat Thiruvengadam

With IoT going through massive expansion, IoT network additions need to be implemented properly. Listen in to Venkat as he identifies trends in IoT, offers suggestions for companies moving to the cloud and IoT, shows how companies can take advantage of Infrastructure-as-code including IoT, and identifies what steps can be taken to be more secure with IoT. A very insightful discussion!

DuploCloud Automation Platform

An end-to-end DevSecOps software platform that acts as your cloud expert, taking high level application specifications from the user and translates them to detailed cloud configurations employing best practices around security, availability, and compliance guidelines. The software runs within the customer’s cloud account and is accessed by the users via the DuploCloud portal, terraform or API.

DuploCloud Managed Operations

Delivers enterprise-grade operational procedures required in regulated industries. Built on top of the platform, it includes a 24×7 security and operations center, incident management, auditor engagement, application health monitoring, integrating application deployments into a CI/CD framework and assistance with containerization.

For more information, go to: https://duplocloud.com/

Industrial IoT (IIoT) has significantly improved the manufacturing process to a point where a manufacturing company will not survive long without it. Ricardo Buranello, SVP and Head of Telit IoT Platforms relates the manufacturing IIoT to Don Witt of the Channel Daily News, a TR publication, which includes Smart Start components of deviceWISE.  They collect data from the different manufacturing machines providing a digital stream of the factory and the line so management knows what is happening in real time.

Ricardo Buranello

Smart Start accelerates the digital transformation for the factory.  Factory application templates of: IT/OT Integration, Process Optimization, Predictive Maintenance, Quality Control and supply chain management are available.

Listen in as Ricardo provides a very articulate description of the templates and the entire manufacturing process. If you are in manufacturing – this is a must listen podcast.

Telit was established in 1986 as Telital, an engineering company providing research and development services for multinational telecoms. Telit emerged as a cellular technology innovator. They began manufacturing and marketing products under the Telit brand in 1997.

They recognized the potential of cellular M2M and IoT solutions. They launched their first M2M module in 1998. Telit has been a pioneer in enterprise-grade IoT products and software for over 20 years.

Telit helps their customers and partners who require best-in-class Internet of Things (IoT) performance. Their engineering practices and design methodologies exceed stringent environmental requirements and industry standards. Their IoT experts have pioneered an end-to-end system approach to ensure everything works together when connecting devices. They enable businesses to manage IoT devices, connectivity, and everything in between.

For more information, go to: https://www.telit.com/ or https://www.telit.com/smart-factory-industry-4-0/

Catastrophic vulnerabilities come in the places people often least expect it, even if the people involved are managing a sophisticated network, already packed with safeguards, and staffed by seasoned professionals. A connection between corporate data systems and a simple building control operation, such as the air-conditioning unit can create a door that bad actors enter. Target, one of the world’s largest retailers, experienced such an attack. Much smaller companies can have certain routine WiFi uses, where sensitive data is available, become a point of vulnerability.

In this podcast Bob Wudeck, senior director of business development at BenQ America Corp., discusses the risks of cybersecurity attacks and data protection, while introducing the company's most secure wireless presentation systems to date. BenQ’s InstaShow WDC30 is the first commercially available wireless presentation system to meet FIPS and EAL6 security standards. Featuring three layers of wireless protection — Wi-Fi 6 encryption, ISO EAL6+, and FIPS 140-3 — the WDC30 is engineered and certified to meet the stringent security requirements of U.S. government agencies, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and other high-risk enterprises. Users can instantly connect the germ resistant WDC30 button to their laptop and tap to present sensitive data with stunning, smooth 4K@60fps video output to up to two displays without network logins or software downloads.

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“Digital transformation is not just about technology,” says Robert Cooper, Managing Director of the Americas branch of Wildix, Inc. “It’s about consumption models, it’s about different buying channels that are offered, and it presents a unique opportunity to think outside the box.” Cooper continues, “You need to be able to lean on one specific area that you know inside out.” In the MSP world, according to Cooper, the MSP faces, literally out of the box solutions that the customer can access on his own. Voice, security, CX, CRM, business processes and more, have increasingly been commoditized, at least at some level. There are freemium services and very low-cost alternatives being offered to business customers. Here comes heavier economic weather and the business owner will be looking to trim costs. “You need to be the market professional,” says Cooper. “The business owner must be able to understand the value.”

In this podcast Cooper makes the case for specialization. Knowing as much as one can know about a brand, a technology, a solution, a situation and perhaps an industry. Being seen as the expert on that topic is critical. This is a strategy to move the MSP out of the price depressed commodity markets and into a niche space where customers are buying the value of a company that comes in and advances a whole business process.

Cooper has over 20 years of experience in leading technology sales teams, successfully managing initiatives at large tech companies, and developing businesses as a member of several company and industry boards. Cooper has extensive experience in bringing new concepts to market through the channel and is well-versed in how new market models and technologies impact the channel today. In addition to his military background, he has served as the Alabama State Chair for the White House Conference on Small Business. Cooper is a frequent guest on the TR Podcast channel.

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Company security is not only the job of the network security engineers. Yes, they need training and certifications continually through Inforsec Skills, but Keatron Evans, Principal Security Researcher at Infosec Institute highlights to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication, that it is the job of every company employee. Company attacks are made at every level in a company. Whether it is email, the browser, the unauthorized application access, the endpoint, or the network itself, all the employees need to be knowledgeable security sentries for the company – check out Inforsec IQ.

Keatron Evans

The supply chain is a totally neglected asset of the company. Keatron goes into great detail about the supply chain and how the company is totally exposed unless certain steps are taken to protect the company. Knowing and securing your supply chain is mandatory to completely secure your company and its data. In order to understand some of the basic supply chain issues and why it is so important, listen in to Keatron providing some of the important facts and details.

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